About Nash Parham
South Carolina injury attorney Nash Parham is an associate at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. Nash W. Parham built his legal career on the other side of the courtroom. For five years, he worked at a defense firm in Upstate South Carolina, where he represented hospitals, doctors, and nurses against medical malpractice claims. His defense practice also included premises liability, Section 1983 civil rights actions, nursing home defense, and asbestos litigation. That experience gave him a detailed, firsthand understanding of how hospitals, insurance companies, and corporate defendants build their strategy, prepare their witnesses, and defend against claims of negligence and abuse.
Nash now uses that insight for his clients. His practice focuses on representing victims of catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, trucking collisions, and sexual abuse. He also handles car accidents, premises liability claims, and dog bite cases.
Nash was born and raised in Chapin, South Carolina, on Lake Murray. He attended the University of South Carolina for his undergraduate degree and continued his education at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and served as Research Editor for the Law Review Journal. Nash now lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
Proven verdicts and settlements at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC
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A South Carolina family reached a confidential $40.35 million settlement, structured under a high-low agreement, after radiologists reading a newborn's early chest X-rays missed a ribcage deformity that turned out to be a sign of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that grew into the child's spinal canal and caused permanent paralysis before it was caught.
A Spartanburg County jury awarded Dara Robinson $16 million against Spartanburg & Pelham OBGYN and three of its physicians after they delayed a cesarean delivery for roughly 30 hours despite fetal monitoring showing signs of distress, and her son died shortly after birth.
Seletha Gartrell, 54, of Aiken, arrived at Aiken Regional Medical Centers on December 6, 2012 with severe sepsis and was not given the antibiotics her doctors ordered for roughly 14 hours; she went into septic shock, suffered a cardiac arrest, and lost both legs above the knee, her left arm below the elbow, and fingers on her right hand. In March 2017 an Aiken County jury found the hospital negligent and awarded her $13.75 million, made up of $10 million in economic damages and $3.75 million in non-economic damages. The hospital publicly disagreed with the verdict, and no appeal or later reduction appears in any public record we could find.
Vernon Sulton, paralyzed by gunshot wounds he suffered as a bystander to an armed robbery, was admitted to HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Columbia with a stage two pressure ulcer on his sacrum; in the 11 days he stayed there it deepened to stage four, requiring a colostomy and skin-graft surgery. A Richland County jury found the hospital and six of its nurses negligent, awarding $306,693.25 to his estate, $4 million to his wife for loss of consortium, and $8 million in punitive damages against HealthSouth. On November 21, 2012 the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed the entire verdict and ordered a new trial, holding that the trial judge had wrongly instructed the jury that the hospital owed a heightened duty of care. What happened after the remand is not in any public record we could find.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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